Ray Optics, Fermat’s Principle, and Applications to General Relativity

Ray Optics, Fermat’s Principle, and Applications to General Relativity by Volker Perlick.

This book is about the mathematical theory of light propagation in media on general-relativistic spacetimes. The first part discusses the transition from Maxwell's equations to ray optics. The second part establishes a general mathematical framework for treating ray optics as a theory in its ow...

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Main Author: Perlick, Volker (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
Edition:1st ed. 2000.
Series:Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs, 61
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Subjects:
Optics.
Electrodynamics.
Applied mathematics.
Engineering mathematics.
Astrophysics.
Gravitation.
Physics.
Magnetism.
Magnetic materials.
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